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  • Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems
  • Nuclear Structure
  • Nuclear Reactions
  • Relativistic/Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions
  • Subnucleon Aspects of Nuclei/Physics of Hadrons
  • Nuclear Astrophysics
• BRIEF REPORTS
• COMMENTS
• MINOR CONTRIBUTIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

The 12C(γ,K+) reaction in the threshold region H. Yamazaki, K. Maeda, S. Asano, T. Emura, S. Endo, S. Ito, H. Itoh, O. Konno, K. Maruyama, K. Niwa, A. Sakaguchi, T. Suda, Y. Sumi, M. Takeya, T. Terasawa, and H. Yamashita pp. R1157-R1160 [View Page Images , PDF (732 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

(d,2He) reactions at Ed=125.2 MeV H. M. Xu, G. K. Ajupova, A. C. Betker, C. A. Gagliardi, B. Kokenge, Y.-W. Lui, and A. F. Zaruba pp. R1161-R1165 [View Page Images , PDF (874 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Evidence for a proton halo in 8B: Enhanced total reaction cross sections at 20 to 60 MeV/nucleon R. E. Warner, J. H. Kelley, P. Zecher, F. D. Becchetti, J. A. Brown, C. L. Carpenter, A. Galonsky, J. Kruse, A. Muthukrishnan, A. Nadasen, R. M. Ronningen, P. Schwandt, B. M. Sherrill, J. Wang, and J. S. Winfield pp. R1166-R1170 [View Page Images , PDF (655 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superdeformation in 154Er L. A. Bernstein, J. R. Hughes, J. A. Becker, L. P. Farris, E. A. Henry, S. J. Asztalos, B. Cederwall, R. M. Clark, M. A. Deleplanque, R. M. Diamond, P. Fallon, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, F. S. Stephens, J. A. Cizewski, and W. Younes pp. R1171-R1174 [View Page Images , PDF (650 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Isospin mixing in proton-rich N≃Z nuclei G. Colò, M. A. Nagarajan, P. Van Isacker, and A. Vitturi pp. R1175-R1178 [View Page Images , PDF (719 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear shell structure and chaotic dynamics in hexadecapole deformation W. D. Heiss, R. G. Nazmitdinov, and S. Radu pp. R1179-R1183 [View Page Images , PDF (917 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Finite-temperature corrections in the dilated chiral quark model Youngman Kim, Hyun Kyu Lee, and Mannque Rho pp. R1184-R1188 [View Page Images , PDF (740 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Color fluctuations in hadrons and proton coherent diffractive dissociation on helium M. Strikman and V. Guzey pp. R1189-R1192 [View Page Images , PDF (565 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Analyzing powers of p+d scattering below the deuteron breakup threshold S. Shimizu, K. Sagara, H. Nakamura, K. Maeda, T. Miwa, N. Nishimori, S. Ueno, T. Nakashima, and S. Morinobu pp. 1193-1202 [View Page Images , PDF (1652 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	πNN coupling constants from NN elastic data between 210 and 800 MeV D. V. Bugg and R. Machleidt pp. 1203-1211 [View Page Images , PDF (1552 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge symmetry breaking in 500 MeV nucleon-trinucleon scattering Tim Mefford and Rubin H. Landau pp. 1212-1215 [View Page Images , PDF (674 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inclusive electron scattering on 3H and 3He with full inclusion of final state interactions J. Golak, H. Wital, H. Kamada, D. Hüber, S. Ishikawa, and W. Glöckle pp. 1216-1231 [View Page Images , PDF (1998 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nucleon polarization in exclusive deuteron electrodisintegration with polarized electrons and a polarized target Hartmuth Arenhövel, Winfried Leidemann, and Edward L. Tomusiak pp. 1232-1253 [View Page Images , PDF (3132 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of the three-nucleon forces due to π and ρ meson exchanges in the three-nucleon continuum H. Witała, D. Hüber, W. Glöckle, J. Golak, A. Stadler, and J. Adam pp. 1254-1259 [View Page Images , PDF (896 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Instant form dynamics of one particle exchange models Michael G. Fuda pp. 1260-1269 [View Page Images , PDF (1404 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	High-spin structure of 139Eu P. Vaska, C. W. Beausang, D. B. Fossan, J. R. Hughes, R. Ma, E. S. Paul, R. J. Poynter, P. H. Regan, R. Wadsworth, S. A. Forbes, S. M. Mullins, and P. J. Nolan pp. 1270-1277 [View Page Images , PDF (1420 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	E1 and M1 strengths studied from two-step γ cascades following capture of thermal neutrons in 162Dy F. Bečvář, P. Cejnar, J. Honzátko, K. Konečný, I. Tomandl, and R. E. Chrien pp. 1278-1294 [View Page Images , PDF (3084 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Negative-parity states near the yrast line in 144Nd J. K. Jewell, O. J. Tekyi-Mensah, P. D. Cottle, J. Döring, P. V. Green, J. W. Holcomb, G. D. Johns, T. D. Johnson, K. W. Kemper, P. L. Kerr, S. L. Tabor, P. C. Womble, and V. A. Wood pp. 1295-1301 [View Page Images , PDF (1131 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superdeformation in 146Gd C. Schumacher, O. Stuch, T. Rzaça-Urban, P. von Brentano, A. Dewald, A. Georgiev, R. M. Lieder, F. Linden, J. Lisle, J. Theuerkauf, W. Urban, S. Utzelmann, and D. Weiβhaar pp. 1302-1306 [View Page Images , PDF (756 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Spin-rotor interpretation of identical bands and quantized alignment in superdeformed A≊190 nuclei J. A. Cizewski, R. Bijker, J. A. Becker, M. J. Brinkman, E. A. Henry, F. S. Stephens, M. A. Deleplanque, and R. M. Diamond pp. 1307-1314 [View Page Images , PDF (1087 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of low-lying states in 9B M. A. Tiede, K. W. Kemper, N. R. Fletcher, D. Robson, D. D. Caussyn, S. J. Bennett, J. D. Brown, W. N. Catford, C. D. Jones, D. L. Watson, and W. D. Rae pp. 1315-1325 [View Page Images , PDF (2012 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rotational structures in 177Ta D. E. Archer, M. A. Riley, T. B. Brown, J. Döring, D. J. Hartley, G. D. Johns, T. D. Johnson, R. A. Kaye, J. Pfohl, S. L. Tabor, J. Simpson, and Yang Sun pp. 1326-1338 [View Page Images , PDF (1778 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Evidence of unique-parity band structure in neutron-rich odd-A Ru isotopes K. Butler-Moore, R. Aryaeinejad, J. D. Cole, Y. Dardenne, R. G. Greenwood, J. H. Hamilton, A. V. Ramayya, W.-C. Ma, B. R. Babu, J. O. Rasmussen, M. A. Stoyer, S. Y. Chu, K. E. Gregorich, M. Mohar, S. Asztalus, S. G. Prussin, K. J. Moody, R. W. Lougheed, and J. F. Wild pp. 1339-1347 [View Page Images , PDF (1438 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of 108,110,112Ru: Identical bands in 108,110Ru Q. H. Lu et al. pp. 1348-1354 [View Page Images , PDF (969 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Conversion electron spectroscopy at the fragment mass analyzer focal plane: Studies of isomeric decays near the proton drip line D. Nisius, R. V. Janssens, I. G. Bearden, R. H. Mayer, I. Ahmad, P. Bhattacharyya, B. Crowell, M. P. Carpenter, P. J. Daly, C. N. Davids, Z. W. Grabowski, D. J. Henderson, R. G. Henry, R. Hermann, T. L. Khoo, T. Lauritsen, H. T. Penttilä, L. Ciszewski, and C. T. Zhang pp. 1355-1360 [View Page Images , PDF (1016 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Neutron decay from the isobaric analog state in 120Sb populated in 120Sn(3He,t)120Sb at E(3He) = 200 MeV, θ = 0° D. A. Roberts, K. Ashktorab, F. D. Becchetti, J. Jänecke, M. N. Harakeh, S. Y. van der Werf, G. P. Berg, C. C. Foster, J. E. Lisantti, T. Rinckel, E. J. Stephenson, S. P. Wells, A. Nadasen, and S. Shaheen pp. 1361-1367 [View Page Images , PDF (1399 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vacuum contributions in a chiral effective Lagrangian for nuclei R. J. Furnstahl, Hua-Bin Tang, and Brian D. Serot pp. 1368-1379 [View Page Images , PDF (2339 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Deformation of light xenon isotopes S. Raman, J. A. Sheikh, and K. H. Bhatt pp. 1380-1393 [View Page Images , PDF (2382 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Boson-fermion mapping of collective fermion-pair algebras P. Navrátil, H. B. Geyer, and J. Dobaczewski pp. 1394-1406 [View Page Images , PDF (1679 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiparticle-rotor model for rotational band structure of 154Gd S. Y. Chu, J. O. Rasmussen, M. A. Stoyer, P. Ring, and L. F. Canto pp. 1407-1418 [View Page Images , PDF (1962 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	F-spin mixing and M1 properties of the low-lying states in the neutron-proton interacting boson model J. Dobeš pp. 1419-1430 [View Page Images , PDF (1344 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear incompressibility: An analytical study on the leptodermous expansion V. S. Uma Maheswari, V. S. Ramamurthy, and L. Satpathy pp. 1431-1442 [View Page Images , PDF (1772 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of hot rotating s-d shell nuclei G. Shanmugam, Kalpana Sankar, and K. Ramamurthi pp. 1443-1452 [View Page Images , PDF (977 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Regional regularities for the even-even nuclei: Medium to heavy systems Y. M. Zhao and Y. Chen pp. 1453-1461 [View Page Images , PDF (1124 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

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Heavy residues from very mass-asymmetric heavy-ion reactions K. A. Hanold, D. Bazin, M. F. Mohar, L. G. Moretto, D. J. Morrissey, N. A. Orr, B. M. Sherrill, J. A. Winger, G. J. Wozniak, and S. J. Yennello pp. 1462-1483 [View Page Images , PDF (4136 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two proton and two neutron photoemission cross sections of 63Cu M. L. Antunes and M. N. Martins pp. 1484-1487 [View Page Images , PDF (652 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gamow-Teller strength in 23Na(n,p) and a comparison to 23Na(μ-,ν) B. Siebels, T. P. Gorringe, W. P. Alford, J. Bauer, J. Evans, S. El-Kateb, K. P. Jackson, A. Trudel, and S. Yen pp. 1488-1497 [View Page Images , PDF (1826 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Total cross section and resonance spectroscopy for n+122Sn R. F. Carlton, J. A. Harvey, and N. W. Hill pp. 1498-1509 [View Page Images , PDF (1935 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoexcitation of 189Osm and 193Irm. I. Excitation of 189Osm by low-energy x rays L. Lakosi, N. C. Tam, and I. Pavlicsek pp. 1510-1515 [View Page Images , PDF (1042 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoexcitation of 189Osm and 193Irm. II. Excitation by 137Cs and 60Co γ rays L. Lakosi, N. C. Tam, I. Pavlicsek, and Á. Petö pp. 1516-1519 [View Page Images , PDF (657 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the spin-dependent asymmetry in 3→(e→,e′) inelastic scattering at low energy transfer C. E. Jones et al. pp. 1520-1523 [View Page Images , PDF (740 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coupled channel folding model description of α scattering from 9Be Subinit Roy, J. M. Chatterjee, H. Majumdar, S. K. Datta, S. R. Banerjee, and S. N. Chintalapudi pp. 1524-1531 [View Page Images , PDF (1297 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Correlated pair conversion in heavy-ion collisions at the Coulomb barrier Wolfgang Pöschl, Martin Schaden, and Klaus Dietrich pp. 1532-1553 [View Page Images , PDF (3586 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Folded potential analysis of the excitation of giant resonances by heavy ions D. J. Horen, J. R. Beene, and G. R. Satchler pp. 1554-1564 [View Page Images , PDF (1623 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fission following complete fusion for 16O + 232Th at 140 MeV A. D. Frawley pp. 1565-1571 [View Page Images , PDF (1262 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic/Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Intermittency and multifractality of medium-energy particles in proton-nucleus interactions at 800 GeV Simi Dheer, Geetanjali Das, R. K. Shivpuri, and S. K. Soni pp. 1572-1579 [View Page Images , PDF (1047 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Search for H dibaryon-nucleus bound states in relativistic Au+Pt collisions A. Rusek et al. pp. 1580-1583 [View Page Images , PDF (668 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microcanonical treatment of hadronizing the quark-gluon plasma Klaus Werner and Jörg Aichelin pp. 1584-1603 [View Page Images , PDF (2291 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Correlations and fluctuations in high-energy nuclear collisions Gordon Baym, B. Blättel, L. L. Frankfurt, H. Heiselberg, and M. Strikman pp. 1604-1617 [View Page Images , PDF (2589 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strangeness enhancement in p+A and S+A interactions at energies near 200A GeV V. Topor Pop, M. Gyulassy, X. N. Wang, A. Andrighetto, M. Morando, F. Pellegrini, R. A. Ricci, and G. Segato pp. 1618-1629 [View Page Images , PDF (1853 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Subnucleon Aspects of Nuclei/Physics of Hadrons

•	Nucleon to Δ weak excitation amplitudes in the nonrelativistic quark model Jùn Líu, Nimai C. Mukhopadhyay, and Lisheng Zhang pp. 1630-1647 [View Page Images , PDF (2063 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kaon photoproduction off nucleons in the chiral quark model Zhenping Li pp. 1648-1661 [View Page Images , PDF (1992 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kaon photoproduction in the color-dielectric model Dinghui Lu, Rubin H. Landau, and Shashikant C. Phatak pp. 1662-1667 [View Page Images , PDF (899 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Variational Tamm-Dancoff treatment of quantum chromodynamics: The heavy mesons in the valence quark approximation J. R. Spence and J. P. Vary pp. 1668-1680 [View Page Images , PDF (2149 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Indirect study of low-energy resonances in 31P(p,α)28Si and 35Cl(p,α)32S J. G. Ross, J. Görres, C. Iliadis, S. Vouzoukas, M. Wiescher, R. B. Vogelaar, S. Utku, N. P. Bateman, and P. D. Parker pp. 1681-1690 [View Page Images , PDF (1594 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	High-spin states in doubly odd 114I E. S. Paul, H. R. Andrews, T. E. Drake, J. DeGraaf, V. P. Janzen, S. Pilotte, D. C. Radford, and D. Ward pp. 1691-1693 [View Page Images , PDF (483 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	γ-ray deexcitations in 168Tm B. Singh, P. C. Sood, and H. W. Taylor pp. 1694-1697 [View Page Images , PDF (776 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparison of potential models with the np scattering data below 350 MeV Vincent Stoks and J. J. de Swart pp. 1698-1701 [View Page Images , PDF (787 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase-shift analysis of neutron-209Bi scattering and its comparison to neutron-208Pb scattering Z. P. Chen, W. Tornow, and R. L. Walter pp. 1702-1705 [View Page Images , PDF (614 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on ‘‘E2 contribution to the 8p+7Be Coulomb dissociation cross section’’ Moshe Gai and Carlos A. Bertulani pp. 1706-1708 [View Page Images , PDF (514 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘E2 contribution to the 8p+7Be Coulomb dissociation cross section’ ’’ K. Langanke and T. D. Shoppa pp. 1709-1710 [View Page Images , PDF (400 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Is large weak mixing in heavy nuclei consistent with atomic experiments? V. F. Dmitriev, I. B. Khriplovich, and V. B. Telitsin pp. 1711-1712 [View Page Images , PDF (324 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reply to ‘‘Is large weak mixing in heavy nuclei consistent with atomic experiments?’’ J. J. Szymanski, J. D. Bowman, M. Leuschner, B. A. Brown, and I. C. Girit pp. 1713 [View Page Images , PDF (95 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

MINOR CONTRIBUTIONS

•	Selected Abstracts from Physical Review D pp. 1714-1715 [View Page Images , PDF (229 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]